A few questions i've always wondered. As someone who completed his whole education in Australia (besides TK in Indo), everytime I ask someone to compare education in Australia and any other country or every time I see people doing it, it tends to be a competition of who has the harder education etc.
Well I agree in Indonesia, the education leading up to tertiary schooling is far more difficult and intense. I attested to this by just having a peak at my cousin's year 11 homework. I'm sure many of you have studied in Australia for either a postgrad or undergrad. Since you guys have first hand experience, honestly and realistically, how much does the difficulty of university work differ?
I don't know if anyone knows enough to compare the admissions part of the Australian and Indonesian system, even though it is clear university admissions in Indonesia are much more difficult. If you had to put it on an Australian scale how would it fit?
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To give you a quick and honest run down. University admission in Australia is a pisstake. After our final exams we are given a ranking number called the ATAR. A 98 ATAR means you are within the top 2% of students in the state. However, not every student in Australia chooses to do ATAR subjects (subjects that allow you to achieve an ATAR score), so these people who didn't even try are also counted when calculating ur ranking. Most "top" universities have a minimum ATAR of 80-85 when accepting students into undergrad courses. This is equavalent to getting an average scaled score of 61% in your top 4 subjects. Yeah, it's relatively easy lmao.
Now, being realistic, how do people who get into top universities like UI or UGM fit onto that scale? Of course, CMIIW but I've heard the way Australia tests their students vs the way Indonesia does it is very different. I heard in Indonesia it's mostly multiple choice? I've also heard their are 3 pathways to get into universities in Indonesia, for a university like UI for example what are the percentages of people that actually get in through all those pathways? Does "social class" matter in Indonesia and the education too? I've heard most people who end up at UI are just generally very privilidged kids. I've also heard being ridiculously good at a subject can also do wonders for you when entering big unis. For example, kids in Indonesia who have been speaking English at a young age and have
... keep reading on reddit ➡We've seen in recent times from news articles that Australian education is by no means perfect (it has many flaws shared by other educational systems).
However, speaking to foreign students there seems to have been a long-standing and pervasive point of view since the 1990s that Australian tertiary/higher education is somehow effective or reputable. So much so that individuals from other countries choose to send their children to Australia, making Australian education one of its biggest exports.
Just what is responsible for Australia's historically strong reputation in education?
I've seen some mail from my tertiary provider a bit late and now they require me to pay $120 in late fees.
Are they within their rights to charge this?
Having just recently elected a conservative Prime Minister, a lot of outrage over a lot of his policies has circled, but I tend to agree with this one. He was quoted saying something to the effect that "while philosophy and feminism courses remain as government-funded university courses, I believe there is still money to be cut in education."
Obviously the quote casts a bad light. But I don't believe it is the role of government to fund interesting subjects, even those with valuable social knowledge, if they don't provide a return from investment by contributing a productive, specialised career.
The main argument for government-funded tertiary education is that by investing in higher education, you create a more educated and skilled population, able to contribute more and earn more in society, raising the overall strength and robustness of the economy.
I feel like this very reasonable argument is being exploited and undermined by the existence of low-skill, low-profitability courses which offer no real job prospects or marketable skills.
By lowering the investment cost in education (by having the government pay for it up front), you raise the demand, but ALSO disincentive against careful discrimination between courses. You dont need to pay for it up front, the debt is a government debt you only pay off when you can, and now people choose their Uni courses based on what they WANT to learn, not what they SHOULD learn to get a job.
The sheer number of (sorry) morons I see getting either A) nonsense degrees that offer NO marketable skills, B) halfarsed degrees that offer only the base education of any field, or C) highly valuable skills in an oversaturated field with no jobs (I'm looking at you, psychology students) is staggering.
I believe government funding for teritiary education should be "means-tested" against the general productivity that course provides to society, in order to incentivise the uni's to cater towards courses which strengthen the economy, rather than teach you to grow a goatee and vote for socialists.
CMV.
Like it seems that Hexside does cater to grade school (elementary, middle and high) as well as kindergarten but what about tertiary education? Like does Hexside have an equivalent of college where they learn advanced stuff in order to get a degree in their coven specialty? Is anyone in the Isles even college educated in the first place?
I plan to move up the academic food chain and climb the ranks from instructor to professor. I felt like secondary education is "dumbing me down" and I really love the advanced concepts of my field. Also I hate dealing with parents lol. Do you feel the same way?
Speaking with many here who either left/gone/going through college/any tertiary education,is it particularly worth it in Malaysia or should i consider a international scholarship elsewhere for more access of better opportunities/qualifications/quality ?
Hello! I'm a freshman & i'm new to the UP CRS. I'd like to ask kung bakit naka-indicate na "confirmed" yung Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act // RA 19031 sa CRS dashboard ko? Since today yung deadline ng payment, kala ko may babayaran kaming tuition pero it turns out it has already been paid. Ganito rin ba sainyo? Need enlightenment. Thanks, have a good day po
Saw a topic about Shakespearan theater at a sub devoted to William. Be sure to read the below link because it has so many points which I do not wsh to plagarize
https://www.reddit.com/r/shakespeare/comments/jwn7ua/is_anyone_here_frustrated_that_despite/
So my question is mostly the same as OP in the link but beyond just Shakespeare but directed at the fact Arthur Miller and so on are required reading in public schools but so many people in younger generation never seen a single play of the stuff they are being forced to read and many of us also grown to hate Miller and Shakespeare because of how dry and very boring we perceive Shakspeare and other playwright's stuff is. I know I did very much (!@#ing hated Eugene O'Neill and other stuff the public school forced us to read and in particular I had a special hate towards Shakespeare as his writing was so damn boring and dry that I saw all of his plays as lame pieces of ****s. Even other bookworms who were my classmates did not like Shakespeare because they felt his writing was too unnecessarily verbose and lacked character development, worldbuilding, subplots, and other stuff seen in modern writers like Margaret Mitchell, Bram Stoker, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Tolkien.
But now that I seen the aforementioned Anthony and Cleopatra starring Timothy Dalton and Lynn Redgrave, I was simply bedazzled at how epic and magnificent live theater can be!
So like I wrote in the link above, I find it sad that so many young people including literature buffs have never seen a single live performance of Shakespeare and other playwrights they were forced to read in school and how plenty of young people have grown to associate Shakespeare and theater in general as lame. Despite schools forcing it upon us it seems to have taken the opposite effect. Its so ironic my school library did not have a live performance of Romeo and Juliet despite how English teachers emphasizing the importance of Shakespeare and being frustrated at how so many of us hated reading the lame dry writings and preferred Tolkien and other writers! What is your opinion?
Hi everyone, I want to ask for some advice. I would like to study short courses related to IT and would appreciate some advice on good institutions in South Africa that offer distance studies. It would be a bonus if the institution offers international certification. So far an option is the IT engineering course at "IT solutions".
I'm also wondering how saturated the IT fields are, "Software development" , "Hardware design", "Embedded systems", etc...
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Hello,
I was trying to find an online course of Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education/Teaching which basically addresees the university teaching. If it is specialised for university mathematics teaching, it is even better.
The awarding institute is not important (as long as I can enrol remotely may be even from outside UK), but I am more interested on the fact it is online and can be done remotely.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
